Another good reason why you must use auto backup programs
On Wednesday 03 October 2012 11:05 AM, Arun Khan wrote:
Thanks to all those who responded with suggestions.
Unfortunately, after a week of several tries, the suggested tools were
unable to recover anything intelligible.
I sent the disk to a "data recovery service." They kept the disk for
about 12 days trying their software based tools and were not meeting
............he files (from what I could
recall) were there. I got the files back on a NTFS formatted disk.
The cost was Rs. 12K.
[1] The only thing the lab technician was ready to disclose - that the
hardware had been imported card at considerable cost (Rs. 5 lacs) and
it came only with Windows drivers.
Lesson learnt: Tread with extreme caution when you are using disk
and filesystem utility tools like dd, dd_rescue, fdisk, mkfs etc.
Review and confirm the "target" location *before* hitting the return
key!
-- Arun Khan
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